1 - 7 March 2001
Issue No.523
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 1 - 7 March 2001 Issue No.523 |
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FLESHING OUT THE BONES: Leonardo da Vinci is the very model of Renaissance genius. He dazzled his contemporaries, and has continued to dazzle those who followed. Yet despite the fact that he has become a household name, few opportunities exist to view his work. There are simply too few extant paintings, and they are seldom allowed outside the handful of galleries that act as their showcases. As for works in situ, The Last Supper is particularly vulnerable, owing largely to the artist's own innovations in the technique of fresco painting. The bulk of his drawings, collected in folios, are likewise inaccessible, the majority being held in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. So the collection of prints, mostly of anatomical drawings, currently showing at the Horizon Gallery, attached to the Mahmoud Khalil Museum, constitutes a rare opportunity to view works that are most familiar from the small scale reproductions that have illustrated innumerable books
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